Wuwei Xixia Museum

Located in front of the gate of Wuwei Confucian temple, Wuwei Xixia museum is a "Hui" shaped antique frame structure building with an area of about 3570 square meters and an exhibition hall area of 1400 square meters. Among the important cultural relics on display are the Xixia stele, the national treasure Wooden Pagoda, the first-class national cultural relic Xixia wood painting and Xixia clay movable type scriptures. The exhibition combines large-scale relief, cultural relic pictures, murals and background paintings to vividly reflect the great achievements made in the political, economic, military and cultural fields during the reign of Xixia.

Wuwei Xixia Museum

Wuwei Xixia museum is located in front of the gate of Wuwei Confucian temple in Wuwei City, Gansu Province. It is a "Hui" shaped antique frame structure building with an area of about 3570 square meters and an exhibition hall area of 1400 square meters. The exhibition combines large-scale relief, cultural relic pictures, murals and background paintings to vividly reflect the great achievements made in the political, economic, military and cultural fields during the reign of Xixia.

historical background

During the Sixteen Kingdoms period, Qianliang, Houliang, Nanliang and Beiliang were all built in Wuwei. Buddhism flourished here at that time, and it once became the center of Buddhist culture in northern China after Qianliang. The Tiantishan grottoes, excavated in Beiliang, are the representative of the early Buddhist grottoes in China; the Luoshi temple in Beidajie is the place where the eminent monk of the western regions, kumaroshizhuoxi, lived in Houliang. In the Tang Dynasty, Wuwei set up the governor's office, and in the later period, it was the residence of Hexi Jiedushi. The Tuguhun royal family also moved here.

In Song Dynasty, Wuwei was basically ruled by Xixia. The national key cultural relic protection unit "Liangzhou rebuilt Huguo Temple induction tower stele" is the most complete preserved, the richest content and the most valuable Xixia stele ever seen. The wooden rafter tower and woodblock found in the western suburb forest farm, the Xixia porcelain found in qingzuiwan and Taerwan, and the Xixia books, clay movable type versions and scriptures found in xiaoxigouxian and heimudong are all very precious cultural relics.

Collection

The important cultural relics on display in Wuwei Xixia Museum include Xixia stele, national treasure Wooden Pagoda, Xixia wood painting, Xixia clay movable type Scripture, etc.

Treasure of town hall

Among the exhibits, the most precious is the Xixia stele. The original name of the Xixia stele, the inscription on the Gantong tower of the rebuilt Huguo temple in Liangzhou, is the only and most complete existing stele in China, with the largest number of Xixia and Chinese characters. It is 2.6 meters high, 1 meter wide and 0.3 meters thick, with inscriptions on both sides. On the front is the title of Xixia documents, which means "the inscription of chigantongta". The text is 28 lines of Xixia regular script, 65 characters in each line. On the back is the seal script "the inscription of gantongta in Liangzhou rebuilt Huguo Temple". The text is 26 lines of Chinese regular script, 70 characters in each line. The main idea of the inscription is about the process of the initial construction, Epiphany and reconstruction of Huguo temple. It has preserved a lot of historical data, which is of great significance for the study of Xixia language and writing Economic society has a very important value, which is called the walking dictionary of Xixia by Chinese and foreign scholars. In addition to the characters, there are also a variety of patterns, flowers, figures, etc. the carving skills are superb and beautiful, with a high level of technology. In 1961, it was announced by the State Council as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

The Xixia tablet was carved in 1094, the fifth year of the reign of emperor chongzong;

In the ninth year of Jiaqing (1804), Zhang Shu, a famous Chinese scholar, epigraphist and Yiren, was found in Dayun temple in Wuwei;

In 1898, the French scholar de VILLIA confirmed that the front of the monument was written in Xixia;

In modern times, Luo Fucheng, a famous Chinese philologist and scholar of Jinshi, deciphered the inscriptions.

Ticket information

It's free.

Address: Xinqingnian lane, Liangzhou District, Wuwei City, Gansu Province, China

Longitude: 102.645201

Latitude: 37.922519

Ticket information: Confucian temple and Xixia Museum joint ticket 41 yuan; Dayun Temple 10 yuan

Opening hours: 8:00-17:00